WORKSHOP: Doctoral consortium at the ASSETS 2022 conference

研讨会：ASSETS 2022 会议上的博士联盟

• 批准号: 2228013
• 负责人: Aqueasha Martin-Hammond
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; consortium; ASSETS; 2022

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 15 promising graduate students (up to 10 from the United States, who will be funded by this award), along with about 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on October 22-23, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2022), to be held October 24-26, 2022, in Athens, Greece. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies in support of the needs associated with speech, motor, hearing, and vision impairments, cognitive limitations, emotional and learning disabilities, aging and education in computing accessibility, as well as the professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world, in both academia and industry, will meet at ASSETS 2022 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found online at http://assets22.sigaccess.org/. A key component of building any community is through its youth. The Doctoral Consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior researchers and peers. It will foster a sense of community among these young researchers by allowing them to create a social network at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. To fulfill the Doctoral Consortium’s goal of providing an interdisciplinary atmosphere that will span the areas of diversity critical to ASSETS 2022, students will be selected to span a range of research interests and approaches. The organizers will take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from underrepresented groups, and will not invite more than one or two students from the same educational institution; if two students from the same educational institution are selected, at least one will be from an underrepresented minority in STEM.The ASSETS 2022 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D. candidates under the guidance of the PI and a panel of distinguished research faculty. The event will be composed of two parts: an informal dinner for introductions and conversation (October 22), followed by a more formal all-day workshop which will include a mixture of student presentations, feedback, and small group discussions culminating in a second dinner (October 23). Student participants will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel regarding their presentations that is designed to help them understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Thus, the Doctoral Consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access; it will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in these interdisciplinary fields, and will also expose the young researchers to a larger community. Participants will showcase their work in a poster session during the conference, and to further integrate them into the research community a session has been set aside in the technical program where all of them can present their research to the full conference. In addition, the faculty panel will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers both in academia and in industry, to better inform the students when considering career options. An evaluation of the consortium will be carried out and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约15名有前途的研究生(最多10名来自美国，他们将由该奖项资助)以及大约5名杰出研究人员组成的博士联盟(研讨会)。该活动将于10月22日至23日举行，紧接着将于2022年10月24日至26日在希腊雅典举行第24届ACM SIGACCESS关于计算机和可访问性(资产2022)的国际会议。资产会议是展示主流和专门辅助技术的设计和使用的创新研究的主要论坛，以支持与语言、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知障碍、情感和学习障碍、老龄化和计算无障碍教育相关的需求，以及与这些人群合作的专业人员。来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将在Assets 2022上会面，交流想法并展示他们的最新工作。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://assets22.sigaccess.org/.。建设任何社区的一个关键组成部分是通过其年轻人。博士联盟将帮助扩大在这一领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，让他们在社会上更广泛地接触到他们的创新工作，并从资深研究人员和同行那里获得反馈和指导。它将在这些年轻的研究人员中培养社区意识，让他们在专业发展的关键阶段创建一个社交网络。因为学生和教职员工在不同的维度上构成了一个不同的群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域未来的利益。为了实现博士联盟的目标，即提供跨学科氛围，跨越对2022年资产至关重要的多样性领域，学生将被选为跨越一系列研究兴趣和方法的学生。主办方将采取特别措施，促进来自代表性较低群体的学生相对较多的机构的参与，不会邀请来自同一教育机构的一到两名学生；如果来自同一教育机构的两名学生被选中，至少有一名学生将来自STEM中代表较少的少数族裔。ASSES 2022博士联盟将是一个由国际博士生组成的团体在PI和一个杰出研究教师小组的指导下举行的以研究为重点的会议。活动将由两部分组成：介绍和交谈的非正式晚宴(10月22日)，然后是更正式的全天研讨会，其中将包括学生陈述、反馈和小组讨论，最后是第二次晚宴(10月23日)。学生参与者将收到教师小组关于他们的陈述的建设性反馈，这些反馈旨在帮助他们理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否被正确地选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。因此，博士联盟将帮助形成目前和未来旨在辅助技术和普及利用的研究项目；它将促进这些跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术和网络联系，还将使年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。与会者将在会议期间以海报形式展示他们的工作，为了进一步将他们融入研究社区，技术方案中留出了一个会议，所有人都可以在整个会议上展示他们的研究成果。此外，教员小组将介绍学术界和工业界研究人员的就业机会，以便在考虑职业选择时更好地为学生提供信息。将对该联盟进行评估，并将结果提供给未来此类活动的组织者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。